Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Other Parasites among HIV/AIDS Patients with on-ART Attending Dilla Referral Hospital, Ethiopia

Abstract

One of the major health problems among HIV sero-positive patients are superimposed infection due to the defect of immunity. Furthermore, intestinal parasites infection and other parasites, which are also one of the basic health problems in tropical region, are common among antiretroviral treatment patients. In this study, was aimed to assess the prevalence of intestinal parasites and other parasites among antiretroviral treatment patients in Dilla Referral Hospital. A cross sectional study design on clinical records of HIV/AIDS patients in ART clinics. Systematic simple random sampling method was used to obtain the required data. The most prevalence parasites infection were on males than females 72.00% and 28.00% in ART patients at 2011 as well as parasite infection were also shown on male ART patients with 52.00% followed by 48.00% females during 2013. And also the most commonly infected with parasites were males with 58.33% followed by females with 41.67% at 2014. Intestinal Parasitic infections were high among young antiretroviral treatment patients while low on children and old antiretroviral treatment patients. Therefore, the high prevalence of intestinal parasites among antiretroviral treatment patients are an evidence for the need of urgent for regular screening and de-worming of antiretroviral treatment patients.